Starting weekly bug spraying prevention
Just to update this journal with something I forgot to mention. I am putting it in bold so next year when I browse thru this I'll be reminded on what the hell I did. Over the weekend I sprayed the plants with a light Neem/Dr Bronner's mix as a preventative/deterrent for the bugs that will undoubtedly try to take up residence in the coming weeks. It is my resolve to now spray the plants each weekend for bugs with the Neem/Dr Bronner's mix, and mid week with BT as a preventative for caterpillars especially from the white butterfly.
I will also spray with insecticide soap whenever bugs are spotted and rinse the plants off after an hour, as per
@InTheShed's recommendation that he passed on from
@FelipeBlu, thanks!
Today Wednesday, I also have just given them a foliar spray of Fish Hydrolysate, Kelp extract, and Humid/fulvic acids with a few drops of Dr Bronner's as a surfactant. After an hour I expect all that to be either dried or absorbed and I will give them another light preventative spray of Neem.
It's amazing to see your plants, Stunger. So vibrant, at the top of their veg game, moving over into flowering. What date did you germinate?
Thanks Emeraldo! If there is one impression this year's grow has made on me so far, is that the soil amending I carried out over Winter has really taken the soil up a notch from last year, where by this time last year I already had carried out several top dressings. So far none this year. I thought my plants looked well last year, but in comparison this year's seem positively lush and happy. Even the Strawberry Cough which started so slowly, with such pale frail looking leaves has started to pick up and her new growth appears to be gaining a darker shade of green, not dark, but her leaves seem to be developing a deepening shade of green, which is going at her pace, and like I said, she's had no top dressing.
Last year's plants were geminated around 14th September, and the GG auto on New Year's day.
This year, in an attempt to be crafty and make smaller more manageable plants with less buds, and therefore less dank smell to pass to the neighbours I started them 6-8weeks later, roughly as follows;
Godfather OG - 27th October
Mango Sherbert - 2nd November
Strawberry Cough - 7th November
CBD Express auto - 14th December
I don't know how you're going to manage the stretch! I guess it'll have to be a horizontal stretch. But realistically, you could let them grow a little higher than the plexiglas privacy railing, folks down below still won't see it.
Here's my thoughts; Last year's stretch at this stage was already well over the balcony rails. So to be at this point, being a foot under, they are well contained in comparison. Once budset is established the colas develop with some stem 'back filling' going on but most of the cola growth will be 'front filling' thereby building the height of the cola stems. I am estimating, based on checking the timing of last years girls, that the currently height where they are now is probably very close to being OK to allow them to grow freely from this point. I have roughly about a foot now to play with before stealth limits are breached. I am guessing that should fit in well with the remainder of stretching yet to finish, and the cola growth yet to play out, if not I will 'spot adjust'!
When I checked last year's journal I saw how late I was catching up to the stretch and dealing with it. This grow I started supercropping on New Years Eve, a month earlier than last year, and as a result I feel the big girl (the Godfather OG) is much more neat and tidy, and condensed into more manageable shape. Last year I supercropped outwards which much expanded the canopy spread. This year I mostly supercroppped inwards, calculating each little gap/space available where I could 'lay' with supercropping and LST each future cola stem into.
I will do some defoliation at some point soon, but as far as doing it for air movement, these girls are getting blown in the wind all the time, I am sure much more than any indoor tent grow would be providing. So I'll most likely only both with removing leaves that cover budding sites.
Stunger they look fabulous! Cant wait to see whats coming for you my friend!
Thanks AH, I can't wait either, I'm up and down all the time finding any excuse to check on them!
